Capitalism Rules, Socialism and Communism Suck Thread

[BananaStand]

So who pays for your roads and shit? Or do you all just build your own?

Property taxes are high. But that keeps property values low, so no one really notices. My place in Massachusetts (literally less than 15 miles away), would cost 3x as much and the property taxes would be about 1/3. Altogether, my mortgage+tax payment is probably around half of what it would be for a similar place in Mass.

One other thing my state does...car registration is fucking expensive. If if you just have an 'average' car like an Accord, putting a new set of wheels on the road will cost you $500-ish. And you have to renew every year. Though as your car depreciates, the registration fee also declines. My 5 year old Ford Fusion costs about $115 to register now.

Oh, also, the government has a monopoly on booze. That helps pay for a lot of shit.

[Poopadoop]

So they just find different ways to live free or pay taxes.

Granted, Alberta sits on a lake of oil and so can afford to be generous with taxpayers. Every other province does have a sales tax.

Gov't in AB used to monopolize booze, but they realised that was pinko commie talk, so they privatized booze sales. I think some other provinces still do things the commie NH way though.

[BananaStand]

So they just find different ways to live free or pay taxes..

There have been studies. I remember reading that when everything is all taken into account, NH residents send the smallest % of their paycheck to the government, regardless of how it gets there.

[Poopadoop]

Do you have equalization payments in the US? Like some states/provinces pays extra in to the feds and they give it to the shithole provinces/states?

[BananaStand]

Do you have equalization payments in the US? Like some states/provinces pays extra in to the feds and they give it to the shithole provinces/states?

states/provinces themselves don't make money or pay taxes, so I'm not understanding what you mean

[Poopadoop]

states/provinces themselves don't make money or pay taxes, so I'm not understanding what you mean

In Canada, the feds take money from 'have' provinces and give it to 'have not' provinces. It's called 'equalization'.

I'm guessing the answer is that no such thing occurs in the US.

[BananaStand]

In Canada, the feds take money from 'have' provinces and give it to 'have not' provinces. It's called 'equalization'.

I'm guessing the answer is that no such thing occurs in the US.

Sounds like taxation without representation. We consider that a bad thing here.

The province should be taxing its citizens in order to generate the funds necessary to operate the functions of the province. The fed should be taxing its citizens in order to generate the funds necessary to operate the functions of the fed. Fin.

What kind of shithole government needs to shoe-horn an extra stage of bureaucracy into that equation?

NOTE: In America sometimes the 'function of the fed' is to provide financial aid to states in need. But that money would come out of their own tax revenue.

[wufwugy]

One other thing my state does...car registration is fucking expensive. If if you just have an 'average' car like an Accord, putting a new set of wheels on the road will cost you $500-ish. And you have to renew every year. Though as your car depreciates, the registration fee also declines. My 5 year old Ford Fusion costs about $115 to register now.

Oh, also, the government has a monopoly on booze. That helps pay for a lot of shit.

Sounds like Washington. No more booze monopoly though.

When the congress can't raise taxes they just keep raising fees. And adding more fees. Power creep is real.